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To do this weekend: Make farmer’s cheese. Make scrapple. I’m picking up the neck bones tonight. Fix the truck door handle. Parts should be arriving today. Celebrate my 28th wedding anniversary with my sweetie.

Pull quote from an interview with Kingsnorth in the latest Mortise and Tenon.

Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History: Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we...

I’m trying to remember a few lines of some piece of Christian devotional writing that has a structure like “[some bad or difficult thing exists] therefore we are saved by [Christian virtue].” I feel like one line ends “therefore we are saved by hope.” It’s driving me crazy. Halp!

The future is invisible; we will find our way along the way.

I used to post notes about what I was working on and I’d like to get back into that habit. Not because it’s particularly noteworthy—just because I like revisiting these memories. Pond The big job this weekend was to get the pond ready for the year. Rachel did most of that work on Saturday while I piddled with other things, like building a new sugar snap pea trellis in one of the raised beds. Rachel drained the pond and power washed all the limestone. Unfortunately, after she refilled the pond...